Facebook shares had finished up 2.3% at $69.63 on the trading day after the WhatsApp announcement back in February. But on Tuesday, shares had closed at $64.89, just above their 50-day trading average Tuesday. Now shares are 5.7% below the 50 DMA.

That cuts into the value of the Oculus deal. Part of it was 23.1 million shares of Facebook valued at $1.6 billion based on an average 20-day closing price of $69.35 per share. That means the Oculus deal is now worth about $200 million less than announced as a result.

Facebook investors aren’t the only unhappy ones. Nearly 10,000 people pledged $2.4 million to Oculus in a Kickstarter campaign to build and get a pair of the VR goggles, and many have been posting comments on the Oculus Kickstarter page criticizing the deal.

Also, Markus “Notch” Persson, creator of the popular Minecraft game, said in a blog post he was dropping plans to develop a version for Oculus following the deal.

“I did not chip in ten grand to seed a first investment round to build value for a Facebook acquisition,” Persson wrote.

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